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ecdh
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the east
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Dec 19, 2018 - 08:35pm PT
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I'd like to see colder and/or higher. This Yosemite stuff is good and well for starters, but its sea level and board shorts. Plus there's bigger walls.
How about trango, Asgard, Jammu or seerdengpu?
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Dec 19, 2018 - 11:35pm PT
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The weather and the remoteness dont lend themselves to the required practice needed to get the route dialed. Maybe thered be an easier rated climb which would be fun but it wouldn’t be a step up from free rider. If you think about it free rider was the perfect opportunity. Hard enough to make it mind blowing and out of the reach of 99.9999999% of all humans on the planet but easy enough to be doable by one guy.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2018 - 12:18am PT
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Don Paul
Social climber
Washington DC
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Dec 20, 2018 - 02:56am PT
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The Shining Wall is frozen choss, there are more solid walls over there.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Dec 20, 2018 - 05:01am PT
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North face of the Rum Doodle
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Dec 20, 2018 - 06:40am PT
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If you think about it free rider was the perfect opportunity.
Agreed. And now that El Cap has been free soloed, the risk/reward equation would be substantially altered. One could do a harder route in purer style, thereby taking on more risk. But, it would be hard to get anyone like Jimmy to film the effort, and any documentary that came out would not have the impact or novelty factor that Free Solo has.
Mark Synnot has said:
I talked to free solo pioneer Peter Croft about it... There’s nothing else as far as he’s concerned. He said El Cap was the final step.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features/athletes/alex-honnold/interview-rope-free-solo-climb-yosemite-el-capitan/
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WBraun
climber
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Dec 20, 2018 - 07:15am PT
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There’s nothing else as far as he’s concerned. He said El Cap was the final step.
Nope, you people haven't even begun yet ......
(Climbing a rock isn't even the first step)
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Dec 20, 2018 - 09:49am PT
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None of it is worth it unless you're still banging smokin' hawt chicks when your 80 like Werner.
With your permission WB, sTooPid.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Dec 20, 2018 - 01:04pm PT
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getting on a rope after free climbing is like going to prison
I would think it would be liberating, you know, to be able to enjoy the climbing without that death penalty thing going on. He seems pretty comfortable on a rope with a worthy partner, Caldwell for instance.
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Riverkern Annex)
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Dec 20, 2018 - 01:20pm PT
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Sitting the fvck still!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 20, 2018 - 01:32pm PT
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Werner doesn't bang hot chicks. He conspires with them.
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Dec 20, 2018 - 02:16pm PT
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The following is a fake story I made up.
Alex Honnold, who has been called the world's greatest free climbing rock soloist, has announced today that he has nothing left to prove to himself by continuing to free solo rock climb and is giving it up. He said he is going into obscurity to escape the media limelight, and the feminine toxicity that was provoked by his recent movie, Testosterone Unchained.
Fake story.
He wants it to be known that he is sorry that the movie may have upset some of the pubic and that he is only guilty of having taken what has been freely given to him. In addition, he said that he appreciates the negative feedback from his movie and has taken it as a good wake up call, and a good time to get out before I become just another splat headline. He said he doesn't know what his next challenge will be. Whatever I do next, he said, will be challenging because climbing is the only thing, besides reading and writing, that I have ever done. Saying, see you later, he walked out the door.
This story is fake.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Dec 20, 2018 - 03:01pm PT
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It appears that he has learned how to shill for money now. That 'truck' isn't even a truck.
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